Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has admitted that to address past human rights violations the nation needed open dialogue and truth telling. He said this would address the root cause of physical, emotional and traumatic experiences and mend broken relations.Presenting a topic at the National Defence College on National Healing, Peace and Reconciliation, VP Mphoko said threats to national securit

Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has admitted that to address past human rights violations the nation needed open dialogue and truth telling. He said this would address the root cause of physical, emotional and traumatic experiences and mend broken relations.But his Zanu PF party has in the past stifled debate on human rights violations including the 1980 genocide which claimed an estimated 20 00

President Robert Mugabe tastes traditional beer during a visit to pay his last respects following the death of his uncle Chief Gutu Anos Kasirayi Masanganise at the late chief’s homestead in Gutu yesterday. Flanking him are acting Chief Gutu (Edmund), son to the deceased, Cde Josaya Hungwe and relatives.

Johannesburg — President Jacob Zuma is willing to step down in order to recover the ANC’s “integrity”, a newspaper yesterday reported senior party sources as saying.The top ANC members told the Mail & Guardian that they had been secretly working on an “exit strategy” for Zuma, who has been under fire in recent months over scandals involving the Guptas, the Constitutional Court’s

FIVE villagers in Mangwe who drove their cattle to graze on her farm have been ordered to pay $1500 to the owner of the farmer Clara Nondo who is a public service commissioner. Plumtree magistrate, Livard Philemon heard that a total of 50 head of cattle belonging to villagers at neighbouring homesteads consumed grass that was meant for her own herd.Nondo, the complainant said of the 50 beasts that

Government has acquired more than 1 867 hectares of land for the purpose of continuing the land resettlement programme. In the Extraordinary Government Gazette published yesterday, Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement Dr Douglas Mombeshora gave notice of the acquisition of agricultural land under Section 72 (2) of the Constitution.“It is hereby notified that in terms of Section 72 (2) o

A Zimbabwean man is set to be executed along 15 other inmates in Indonesia’s next round of executions. Time Magazine reported that seven of the 10 foreigners to be executed came from countries that implement the death penalty.“The composition of execution line-up suggests an attempt to avoid the intense international attention and outcry that happened when Jakarta executed a total of 14 drug c

A man fron Kensington just outside Bulawayo has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after fatally striking a colleague with an iron bar who asked him for gay sex.Fortune Ncube, 46, flew into a rage and attacked Sindisani Sibanda, 24, on Christmas Eve last year after the latter made derogatory gay sexual utterances towards him.Ncube was convicted of a lesser charge of culpable homicide after taking

THE abuse of social media reached new heights in Victoria Falls when a false message was spread on WhatsApp that a married taxi driver had stabbed his long-time girlfriend to death.A Chronicle news crew tracked down the supposed suspected killer, Cletus Ndlovu, who people alleged had gone into hiding after fatally stabbing his unnamed girlfriend on Wednesday night.Ndlovu said the hoax had put his

A MAN from Pumula suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested after he allegedly exposed his private parts to a 12-year-old girl.Norman Sivango, 38, a married father of two, allegedly met the girl, who cannot be named for ethical reasons, in a bush where she was picking up plastics to make some fire.He allegedly held his member in his hands and charged towards the girl.The court heard the girl ran away w

President Robert Mugabe has cracked the whip and ordered war veterans to take part in the planned solidarity march organised for him by the Zanu PF youth league despite their earlier threats to boycott the event.Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association spokesperson, Douglas Mahiya confirmed the development yesterday.“It is no longer a million-man march, but a parade that has been

National Social Security Authority (NSSA) acting general manager,Hashmon Matemera, has been relived  of his duties to enable him to deal with allegations of aiding the externalisation of $340 million by a diamond producer. It appointed director of Benefits Henry Chikova as the acting general manager. In a statement yesterday, NSSA said the move to relieve Matemera of his duties was to gi

Youth leader Sungano Chisina is under probe in the capacity of being the Zimbabwe Youth Council (ZYC) acting chief executive officer,for allegedly failing to account for $17 650 donated by Old Mutual Zimbabwe.According to an internal audit report commissioned by the Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment ministry, the money had been sourced from Old Mutual to fund a workshop fo

Reports have emerged that new government policy to introduce bond notes into circulation have divided Zanu PF, with some legislators expressing fears that the move could trigger hyper-inflation and panicky cash withdrawals, as depositors fear a repeat of the 2008 economic meltdown.Ruling party MPs and officials, who spoke to a local publication , said the move was akin to addressing symptoms inste

The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) this week wielded the axe on senior staffers, among them popular disc jockey, Kudzi Marudza and head of television, Josephine Zulu, in continuation of a staff rationalisation exercise that began over two years ago.Acting chief executive officer, Patrick Mavhura confirmed the two were part of the latest group to lose their jobs.“It was not an impromptu